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> I will admit there are some that do - in my circles I can safely say
that most 
> computers are used for common business duties, WP, database (entry, display, 
> reports), games, etc. All use very little floating point. Given a choice
I would 
> take faster integer processing over floating point any day for my
applications 
> (unless I could have both).
> 
> > 

Maybe on the PC side...most Mac users are working in graphics apps most of
time (the Mac has the low-to-mid-end graphics and high end DTP markets
practically locked--so much that more than a few prepress service bureaus
charge extra for working from PC files, and can get away with it). Most of
these programs, especially those compiled for the PPC, were written to use
the FPU as much as they can. Given the fact that the Power Mac 8100/80 ran
integer and boolean operations 3x as fast as the Quadra 840, but FPU
operations 15-20x as fast, it's easy to understand why.

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